Posted April 20, 201015 yr Hey! So I would need some info regarding the yearly total sales for singles and albums in the noughties, I've tried to find some info in the decade MW reports, but all I could find was : Singles : (1997 : 87m) 2003 : 30.89m 2009 : over 150m In 2000 : #1 = 11.08% of the market In 2009 : #1 = 3.22% of the market Albums : Declining every year since 2004 Sales in the noughties = highest total in the format’s history Would anyone have more info for every year? That would be much appreciated, and very interesting for everyone I'm sure. I was not sure where to post it though, so feel free to move it to an other section ;)
April 20, 201015 yr Singles YEAR TOTAL 2000 55,695,507 2005 47,882,180 2001 51,210,494 2006 66,843,844 2002 43,936,911 2007 86,562,355 2003 30,887,864 2008 115,139,176 2004 32,266,501 2009 152,749,077 Albums YEAR TOTAL 2000 134,695,507 2005 158,988,944 2001 144,910,940 2006 154,099,265 2002 149,178,638 2007 138,067,371 2003 159,277,740 2008 133,643,773 2004 163,405,658 2009 128,946,805
April 20, 201015 yr Singles YEAR TOTAL 2000 55,695,507 2005 47,882,180 2001 51,210,494 2006 66,843,844 2002 43,936,911 2007 86,562,355 2003 30,887,864 2008 115,139,176 2004 32,266,501 2009 152,749,077 Albums YEAR TOTAL 2000 134,695,507 2005 158,988,944 2001 144,910,940 2006 154,099,265 2002 149,178,638 2007 138,067,371 2003 159,277,740 2008 133,643,773 2004 163,405,658 2009 128,946,805 That's fantastic, I'm putting that in a graph and it's fascinating to see the trend. Do you have any figures for further back?
April 21, 201015 yr In a way, sales from 2004 were even worse since the above figure includes downloads which weren't counted for chart purposes at the time. The amount of physical singles sold in 2004 was 26,495,153. This equates to the lowest annual sale since at least the 1950s.
April 21, 201015 yr That's fantastic, I'm putting that in a graph and it's fascinating to see the trend. Do you have any figures for further back?These are figures taken from www.zobbel.de and are shipments to the trade rather than over the counter sales: SINGLES 1938: 6m 1945: 10m 1959: 60m 1964: 64m 1965: 56m 1966: 46m 1967: 46m 1968: 44m 1969: 41m 1970: 41m 1971: 43m 1972: 46.2m 1973: 54.6m 1974: 62.7m 1975: 56.9m 1976: 56.9m 1977: 62.1m 1978: 88.8m 1979: 89.1m 1980: 77.9m 1981: 77.4m 1982: 78.6m 1983: 74.0m 1984: 77.0m 1985: 73.8m 1986: 67.5m 1987: 63.413m 1988: 60.118m 1989: 61.114m 1990: 58.858m 1991: 56.302m 1992: 52.921m 1993: 56.276m 1994: 63.049m 1995: 70.711m 1996: 78.264m 1997: 87.021m 1998: 79.373m 1999: 80.059m 2000: 66.080m 2001: 59.532m 2002: 52.532m 2003: 36.425m 2004: 31.435m (37.206m incl downloads) 2005: 26.105m (53.209m incl downloads) 2006: 71.500m 2007: 89.300m 2008: 116.900m Fiesta's figures are over the counter sales, a more accurate measure than shipments since some shipments can end up as returns. Over the counter sales pre 2000: 1997: 77,613,520 1998: 73,788,118 1999: 71,001,136 and Fiesta's figures continue on from 2000. There are no over the counter sales available from prior to 1997.
April 21, 201015 yr Over the counter album sales pre 2000 1997: 109,325,353 1998: 121,452,693 1999: 121,525,697 then as Fiesta's figures from 2000 Shipment figures are available at www.zobbel.de - click "Chart Analyses" from the left side menu then choose "UK Record Sales - Albums 1972-2007" from the right side menu. Shipments are always higher than over the counter sales as you can see from the singles "over the counter" sales compared to "shipments". The difference is usually a few million, but sometimes up to 10 million or more. For albums the difference up to 2007 was much, much bigger. This is because for albums the number of units shipped of each individual disc were counted so, for example, double albums were counted as two units shipped. So, for example, in 2004 at the height of album sales, 163,405,658 albums were sold at retail (ie over the counter) but 239,369,000 albums were shipped. From 2007 the BPI changed the way it counted shipments of albums to "packages" rather than units so, for example, a double album counted as one package. The BPI then backdated its album shipment measurements to 2000 using this new system and the 2004 shipment figure under the new measurement is 176,100,000. Again, actual retail sales are a better figure for the customer though the industry is still more concerned with actual shipments. Edited April 21, 201015 yr by Robbie
April 21, 201015 yr There are no over the counter sales available from prior to 1997. These do actually exist, the BPI books do contain them, but - 1) You have to calculate them from 2 different tables in 2 different sections. As the figures in each table are rounded you get a significant margin of error. 2) They date from the years when market estimates of retail sales were calculated by multipying panel sales totals by a 'multiplier' to give a best fit figure for the market. The multiplier used by the BPI statisticians is not the same as that used by the chart compilers, or the likes of Alan Jones, in every case (although often they are). If anyone is still interested, and maybe some will not know what I'm on about, I'll try to fish out the figures from my own notes.
April 21, 201015 yr These do actually exist, the BPI books do contain them, but - 1) You have to calculate them from 2 different tables in 2 different sections. As the figures in each table are rounded you get a significant margin of error. 2) They date from the years when market estimates of retail sales were calculated by multipying panel sales totals by a 'multiplier' to give a best fit figure for the market. The multiplier used by the BPI statisticians is not the same as that used by the chart compilers, or the likes of Alan Jones, in every case (although often they are). If anyone is still interested, and maybe some will not know what I'm on about, I'll try to fish out the figures from my own notes.I wouldn't mind seeing the figures if that is possible. All I've ever seen from prior to 1997 are shipment figures so it would be good to see retail sales figures too, even if the figures aren't quite as accurate as those compiled from 1997 onwards (which I assume are based on total CIN/OCC DUS figures for each year). Edited April 21, 201015 yr by Robbie
April 22, 201015 yr This is what I have calculated from the available data. 1985 67.8m 1986 60.7m 1987 60.8m 1988 53.5m 1989 58.9m 1990 57.9m 1991 56.6m 1992 48.2m 1993 47.7m 1994 51.4m 1995 65.6m 1996 69.3m Note that the BPI used 15 as the singles multiplier from 1992-1996. OCC inherited that value from Gallup but eventually used 17 for 1994 and 1995, and 16 was used by Hit Music for 1996 (their year-end data for 1995 was also at 16, but subsequently discarded in favour of 17 later in the decade). As I recently posted on Haven, the 1995 figure using a multiplier of 17 gives about 74.3m, which is higher than the 70.7m shipped. The DUS figure for 1996 is 66.2m, by the way. Additionally, it appears that after the event Alan Jones and Hit Music began to use 16 as the multiplier for 1991, although Gallup had used 17 and so had the BPI. I'm not sure what multiplier was used by the BPI for 1985-1987. Alan Jones used 18, but I've been told Gallup's official multiplier was 17 and that Alan was interpreting the data differently to them. Presumably the BPI used Gallup's multiplier, whatever it actually was. All of the above means that sales of individual singles, singles artists and other related data are not necessarily calculated using the same multiplier as the BPI were using for a given year. Indeed most individual titles from 1994-1996 are quoted using OCC multipliers, or at times the DUS. Edited April 22, 201015 yr by MFR
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